Reports and publications

Vickie has assembled and mentored an A-team of environmental lawyers who are on the front lines of today’s fierce battles to defend America’s bedrock environmental laws.

Climate change threatens key life support systems of our planet — and the ocean is no different. Read EDF Oceans' Fisheries for the Future blog series, where we discuss sustainable fisheries management for a climate-impacted world, through nine concise blogs on various topics.

Louisiana is at the forefront of confronting multi-faceted challenges due to coastal land-loss and climate change. These challenges include loss of culture and economy for humans as well as loss of ecosystem functions and habitats for the socio-ecological system. 

Louisiana is confronting multi-faceted challenges due to coastal land-loss and climate change. The Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) — a consortium of five nonprofit organizations with a shared goal of restoration of coastal Louisiana — identified 17 projects to best mitigate and adapt to these challenges in the near term.

Electronic monitoring and electronic reporting programs can improve accountability in fisheries and provide more accurate and real-time data collection for science, management and business operations. This white paper discusses how well-crafted policies, cross-region collaboration and clear communication can help policymakers accelerate the uptake of promising EM/ER technologies and maximize the value of fisheries data in the United States.

The purpose of this report is to summarize both the current status of the China GHG Voluntary Emission Reduction Program and the design of offset mechanisms in China’s local carbon markets, in turn providing reference material for future development of the China GHG Voluntary Emission Reduction Program and on how to introduce the offset mechanisms into the national ETS. This is the Chinese language version.

This report summarizes both the current status of the China GHG Voluntary Emission Reduction Program and the design of offset mechanisms in China’s local carbon markets, in turn providing reference material for future development of the China GHG Voluntary Emission Reduction Program and on how to introduce the offset mechanisms into the national ETS. 

Analysis shows how CORSIA’s built-in flexibility helps airlines during COVID crisis

A new by Environmental Defense Fund and grid reliability expert Alison Silverstein concludes that Texas’ competitive electricity market can meet future demand growth, increase grid resilience and keep energy costs down by leveraging demand-side solutions like energy efficiency, demand response and energy storage.